Hi,
May I know how do I store videos and photos into an external hard disk so that I can free up my Macbook storage?
Hope to receive advice on this.
Thanks
Stephen Lim
iMovie '11, iOS 6.1.2
What advice do you need?
First buy an external hard drive from OWC/MacSales.
Format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Copy your files to it.
Hi Stephen
Yes there are problems with this
A. external Hard Disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to be used for VIDEO as KLAUS1 writes.
B. a FireWire or Thunderbolt one is better than USB/USB2 as they performs badly to me especially when filling up.
C. DO NEVER - move or alter any folders named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder as this will break the connection to iMovie
ONLY move Event's and Project's from within iMovie Application !
D. Then the BIG problem - as I have no answer to - Video and Photos in iPhoto or Aperture.
Moving them to an external hard disk - and at least MY iMovie can not see them any more - resulting in broken Project's - most probably beyond repair.
and here I run into the wall of ignorance 😉
Yours Bengt W
To copy finished movies, you can move them in the Finder. To copy or move iMovie Projects or Events, you must do this from within iMovie. See this post for details.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
For photos, I suggest you ask in the iPhoto forum or the Aperture forum. I have done it, but it was some time ago.
how to store videos and photos in external storage
